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Researchers from Yale University believe they have deciphered the neurological mechanism that causes the "munchies," that inexplicable urge to eat that has led generations of marijuana users to consume untold numbers of nachos, Twinkies and Doritos. The phenomenon appears to be driven by neurons in the brain that typically involve suppressing the appetite, according to a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature. When responding to marijuana, however, neurons that normally turn off hunger pangs instead made users ravenous — at least when those users were transgenic lab mice. Tamas Horvath, the study's lead author and a Yale professor and neurobiologist, likened...

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